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1 Early Twentieth-Century Fiction e20fic17.blogs.rutgers.edu Prof. Andrew Goldstone Mondays: Scott 119; Wednesdays: Scott 106 Office hours: Murray 019, Mondays 1:00 2:30 or by appointment October 18, Conan Doyle. 1 / 13

2 review the problem of language (Addie) the problem of blood the possibility of other affinities ( goddamn town fellow ) 2 / 13

3 where we watch from Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. (233, qtd. by CG ) But I aint so sho that ere a man has the right to say what is crazy and what aint. It s like there was a fellow in every man that s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment. (238) 3 / 13

4 mini-workshop 1. underline background and summary 2. wiggly-underline the motive 3. write THESIS next to the thesis 4. discuss: are the terms of the thesis clear? Is it making an argumentative claim? 4 / 13

5 overview: elevating fiction 1893 Henry James, The Middle Years 1916 James Joyce, Portrait 1921 Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday 1929 Woolf, A Room of One s Own 1930 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying 5 / 13

6 begin again: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 b. Edinburgh 1887 A Study in Scarlet (novel) in Beeton s Christmas Annual (periodical) 1890 The Sign of Four (novel) in Lippincott s (periodical) 1891 Scandal in Bohemia (story) in Strand (periodical), followed by more 1892 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (collection) pub. by George Newnes 1893 kills off Holmes. Writes in other genres (historical novel) 1900 Boer War propaganda 1901 back to Holmes (Hound of the Baskervilles) 1910s-20s spiritualism, belief in fairies 1930 d. 6 / 13

7 discussion: on genre in what sense are these stories of the same kind? consider: 1. thematic elements 2. formal elements 3. rhetorical elements 7 / 13

8 medium The story has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, like all such narratives, its effects is much less striking when set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth. ( Engineer s Thumb, 153) 8 / 13

9 ME ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. His Majesty to regain JWQHR.Y, And when At will you call? eight in the morning. be up, so that we shall own with his it hands. have She not will a clear field. Besides, We said u Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes. There were several people on the pave: ment at the time, but the greeting appeared come from a slim youth in an to Yesterday. But to whom? To an English lawyer Editor of The Strand Magazine hands number the of the public. The Strand Magazine will be issued annoyance. If the lady loves husband, she does not love your Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan. It is true. And yet Well I wish she had been of her foreign authors. first These will be illustrated by eminent artists. Special new features Magazine Literature It may will in be introduced from time to time. is no necessity for another. The Strand Magazine will It is believed, how- soon occupy a position which will justify its existence. The past efforts of the Editor in supplying cheap, healthful literature have met with such generous favour from the public, that he ventures to hope that this new enterprise will prove a popular one. He is conscious of many defects in the first issue, but will strive after ^improvement in the future. Will those who like this number be so making its merits, if they are kind enough known to their friends. good as to to think that it by has any, Holmes, which was not broken, until we staring the dimly down I Now, street. drew up wonder who the Briony Lodge was open, and an III. I Holmes, lieve You either eagerly into his? gaze. Indeed GOOD-NIGHT, MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES. I have hopes. Then, come. I com- My mistress told me that you were She morning with her husband, by the likely to call. am all impatience to be gone. left this train 5.15 We We Briony Lodge. my looking her with a questioning and rather startled Not yet. But you have hopes am Mr. swered at face. I be said she. panion, shoul- and looking der,? I Holmes, an- he grasping Sherlock Holmes by She we stepped from the brougham. Mr. Sherlock the King of Bohemia rushed it upon the stood steps. watched us with a sardonic eye as into the room. have really got woman elderly slept at Baker- street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning cried, in Ser- pentine-avenue. The door of deuce that could have been. must have a cab. No, my brougham is waiting. Then that will simplify matters. descended, and started off once more for Strand 1, no. 1 (January 1891): 3 station made He relapsed into a moody silence assist, a queen would have I've heard that voice be- when be said that with the immense number of existing Monthlies there ever, that which have not hitherto found place my own What she regularly in the early part of each month. contain stories and articles by the best British writers, It will and special translations from the? does. would spare your Majesty all hurried by. lit in it fear of future fore, said HE respectfully places his first named Norton. But she could not love him am in hopes that she And why in hopes? I Because who had ulster remarked we must be prompt, for this marriage may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to the King without delay. had reached Baker-street, and had stopped at the door. He was searching his pockets for the key, when someone passing li Irene Adler is married, Holmes. Married When? from Charing - cross, for the Continent. What back, Do Sherlock Holmes staggered white with chagrin and surprise. you mean that she has Never to return. left England? Strand 2, no. 1 (July 1891): 73 9 / 13

10 discussion Who s in charge in Scandal? And how do you know? 10 / 13

11 Now it was clear to me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious to her than what we are in quest of. (17) 11 / 13

12 gender trouble My dear Holmes, you would certainly have been burned, had you lived two centuries ago. (2) She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men. (8) 12 / 13

13 next papers: late policy reminder Sayers, through chap. 5 commonplace 13 / 13